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There is no respect for the time of the readers. Nowadays it's not just the occasional post from yegge or patio anymore. In general, the first few sentences of an article should present a summary and convince me to go further to read the details.
It's a language with its pros and cons, I like the simplicity, it's a good choice for services that just expose an API/GRPC/etc... and the performances are not that bad.
This "but rust is faster" obsession often comes from people that don't even know what they are talking about or are even able to consider if thinking about performance make sense for a specific use cases. Sometimes, or at least it did before LLMs, having something simple to modify was more important that chasing supposedly higher performance because the rust people keep blabbering about it.
> would Rust have been the lucky candidate?
Probably not, considering that the author give me a "simple solutions are best" vibe.
Even if using LLM is the only way to do things at scale it does not mean that it's always the right tool.
There are a lot of site that are republishing your show HN but this one is the only one that actually extended it...
I will stop here, sorry but I think we have limited time to listen to opinions and nowadays since they are abundant on social media we should give preference to the substantiated ones.